Kai Swenson, MD
Pulmonary Disease · Boston, MANPI 1114312485
Payments from drug & device makers
Across 72 payments — averaging $559.39 each. Meals, travel, consulting and speaking fees, gifts and royalties reported by drug and device makers.
- Intuitive Surgical$15K
- Boston Scientific$13K
- Cook Incorporated$5K
- Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc.$3K
- Pulmonx Corporation$2K
- Medical Device Business Services, Inc.$554
- plus $2K from 11 others
What the payments were for
- Consulting fees$5,15013%
- Speaking & faculty fees$9,00022%
- Grants$12,50031%
- Travel & lodging$1,0973%
- Food & beverage$3,93810%
- Education$5,10013%
- Other$3,4909%
General payments by program year
Who reported the general payments
Companies are grouped under their corporate parent — a single manufacturer often files under several CMS reporting entities. Research and ownership payments are counted separately and are not in this table.
| Company | Payments | Total |
|---|---|---|
| Intuitive Surgical | 21 | $14,545 |
| Boston Scientific | 8 | $12,911 |
| Cook Incorporated | 9 | $4,550 |
| Fujifilm Sonosite, Inc. | 1 | $3,490 |
| Pulmonx Corporation | 10 | $2,291 |
| Medical Device Business Services, Inc. | 6 | $554 |
| Johnson & Johnson | 3 | $374 |
| ERBE USA Inc | 3 | $305 |
| Pinnacle Biologics, Inc | 2 | $225 |
| Cook Medical LLC | 2 | $210 |
| Bard Peripheral Vascular, Inc. | 1 | $171 |
| Steris Corporation | 1 | $158 |
| Olympus America Inc. | 1 | $150 |
| Philips North America LLC | 1 | $127 |
| Genentech USA, Inc. | 1 | $100 |
| Galvanize Therapeutics, Inc | 1 | $72 |
| Medtronic | 1 | $43 |
What the payments were tied to
Products named in the reported payments. Only payments of $100 or more are attributed here — the typical reported payment nationally is a meal worth about $16, and listing those product-by-product would be noise.
- Da Vinci Surgical System$14,255
- SonoSite Edge II$3,490
- ZEPHYR ENDOBRONCHIAL VALVE$2,227
- CHARTIS CATHETER$631
- ZEPHYR DELIVERY CATHETER$631
- PULMONX CHARTIS TABLET CONSOLE$631
- MONARCH$496
- Monarch Platform$318
- Photofrin$225
- TRUFREEZE$158
- Single-Use flexible Video Bronchoscope$150
- (9547) IGT Systems Undivided$127
- Wayne$117
- VIO3/APC3/ERBECRYO2$111
- GENERAL PULMONARY$107
How this compares
$40,276 in reported general payments places this provider in the 85th percentile of 482 pulmonary disease providers in Massachusetts.
Medicare billing
What this is not: this is the amount Original Medicare Part B allowed for services this provider billed in 2024. It is not their income. It excludes Medicare Advantage — now more than half of all Medicare enrollment — along with Medicaid and all commercial insurance, and it is gross practice revenue before staff, rent, supplies and malpractice premiums. CMS also suppresses any figure covering ten or fewer patients, so low-volume providers appear smaller than they are.
Other pulmonary disease in Boston
- Aaron WaxmanBoston$7.7M
- John BerkBoston$6M
- Darrell KottonBoston$5.3M
- Hilary GoldbergBoston$3.5M
- Harrison FarberBoston$2.6M
- Elizabeth KlingsBoston$2.1M
- Gary HunninghakeBoston$1.5M
- Peter LacameraBoston$1.3M
- Barry SheaBoston$1M
- Isabel NeuringerBoston$817K
Where these figures come from
- Payments: CMS Open Payments, program years 2019–2025 (publication P06302026_06032026).
- Billing: Medicare Physician & Other Practitioners, data year 2024. Original Medicare Part B only.
- Identity: NPPES NPI Registry, July 2026.